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This is perhaps the first poster to feature a 'real' SPIDEY (as in someone dressed up as him). It was given away through SPIDER-MAN COMICS WEEKLY back in 1973, in exchange for eight tokens that readers clipped out, one at a time, every week, which they then submitted to the Marvel offices in return for their very own poster. Although I have the poster, it's too big for scanning, so here's the preview pic printed in the comic to show Marvelites what they were actually getting. Hey, it looked great back in the day, but I was only 14 then, remember. Incidentally, I have two copies of this issue, and in the other one (if memory serves), the discoloured area on the right side of Spidey's costume is the correct blue, so go figure.
I was so disappointed in this poster when they finally revealed it - I was so glad I never clipped my excellent Ditko SMCW's in anticipation of this piece of crap (imho of course).
ReplyDeleteI didn't care - it covered a damp patch on the wall. Yeah, it was hardly what we expected from the early description, was it? I bought two issues of each mag, so cutting out the coupon wasn't a problem.
ReplyDeleteThere was a terrific photo of Spider-Man taken for use in the article that appeared in the April 1973 issue of Creem...
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Would have made a great poster - that one you've shown is terrible! I'd have been disappointed at any age.
Took a look, BS - I wonder if it's the same costume in both photos? I also wonder why bigglee stamps his name all over the images he uses. He doesn't own the copyright and these images aren't supposed to be 'affixed to any other form of advertising'. (Yeah, I know it's so that know one else can use the images, but there's ways of doing that without ruining the pictures.)
ReplyDeleteAh - thanks for the pointer, Kid, to see the poster in its colour glory. I did think it was pretty cool at the time and inspired me to create collages of my own, overlaying pictures cut out of MWOM and SMCW onto full-page colour photos of New York scenes from National Geographic that we had in the house.
ReplyDeleteWe live to serve, B. Funnily enough, in another copy of the same ish, there isn't that discoloured area under his right arm. I assume that it was spotted and corrected before the print run was complete. (Or maybe it was published again in another issue.)
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